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Definition of the day : « popinjay »
- As in Beau Brummel : noun ladies' man
- As in coxcomb : noun fop
- As in fop : noun dandy
- Yes, I was thinking what a popinjay I should look in a cocked hat.
- Extract from : « Syd Belton » by George Manville Fenn
- That it has given a peacock's strut to the popinjay Anthony Woodville.
- Extract from : « The Last Of The Barons, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- "Then will they miss seeing a man, and not a popinjay," I retorted.
- Extract from : « To Have and To Hold » by Mary Johnston
- Am I to be shot at like a popinjay at a fair, by any reaver or outlaw that seeks a mark for his bow?
- Extract from : « Sir Nigel » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- You should see the figure you cut with that popinjay in your arms.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of Life » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
- I'll be shot if you shall have an invitation to Lancaster Park, you popinjay!
- Extract from : « Lancaster's Choice » by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
- Then will they miss seeing a man, and not a popinjay, I retorted.
- Extract from : « By order of the company » by Mary Johnston
- Taylor, the water poet, mentions the Popinjay at Ewell, in 1636.
- Extract from : « The History of Signboards » by Jacob Larwood
- Two only of those who followed in order succeeded in hitting the popinjay.
- Extract from : « Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated » by Sir Walter Scott
- But the popinjay could not sing, and had no invitation to stay.
- Extract from : « Dorothy and other Italian Stories » by Constance Fenimore Woolson